It may be time for me to mix up the anti-spam measures here. I tried to fix things so that it was easier for people to register, but at what cost? Is it better to have everyone register and be spammed? Or is it better to have the people who can't read not register and also block the spam?

I think you would get rid of almost all of it by not allowing new people to post a new thread until they've responded a few times to others posts.

Has there been any spam in the responses of a thread? I haven't seen any here, granted many times they've already been deleted by the time I see a notice for spam. Even if they manually did that, it wouldn't be that many to get rid of. It seems like the BOTs are able to create new threads easily for their spam.

I think you would get rid of almost all of it by not allowing new people to post a new thread until they've responded a few times to others posts.

That might help, but it would also hurt the person who just found GRS and wants to ask "Should I liquidate my variable annuity" or "How do I deal with my 2 year contract with DirectTV that I want to get rid of?" or whatever.

I think you would get rid of almost all of it by not allowing new people to post a new thread until they've responded a few times to others posts.

Has there been any spam in the responses of a thread? I haven't seen any here, granted many times they've already been deleted by the time I see a notice for spam. Even if they manually did that, it wouldn't be that many to get rid of. It seems like the BOTs are able to create new threads easily for their spam.

I think you would get rid of almost all of it by not allowing new people to post a new thread until they've responded a few times to others posts.

That might help, but it would also hurt the person who just found GRS and wants to ask "Should I liquidate my variable annuity" or "How do I deal with my 2 year contract with DirectTV that I want to get rid of?" or whatever.

Well, the logic is to become part of the community by responding to posts and maybe helping out a little before you start asking for help yourself right away. A lot of one time posters asking for help never respond back anyhow.

On my list of things to do is to move the anti-spam code (and to change it) so that it's not so easy to get to. I don't want to institute a rule that people have to participate before posting. That works in some forums, but this is pretty low volume, and I send a LOT of people over here when I don't have time to answer them myself.

How about a lower tier mod position that can only lock threads for review by a full mod? This stop the spam from being bumped and uses the best spam filter available - people. It could potentially be abused but I think it would probably be less likely to happen then spam and is easy enough to fix.

Well, right now I knwo Dylan is very active on the forums as our moderator. Nickel and Jethro are also mods, but they're not as active. JD is the other site admin, but Im always telling him to let me worry about this place and he can concentrate on putting out more great articles.

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